He has also held principal positions with Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, and the UNAM Philharmonic Orchestra which is considered one of Mexico’s most elite ensembles. He has been a finalist in the “Citta di Porcia” International Competition in Italy (2011), a three-time winner of the Mexico National Brass Competition, and recently served as principal trombone in the Zurich Opera for a season. He is an internationally known musician and in-demand soloist. In addition to his work as a horn player, composer, arranger, and electronic musician, Grabois is also an avid practitioner of tae kwon do.ĭaniel Grabois is a Yamaha Performing Artist.įAUSTINO DÍAZ MENDEZ is the first Latin-American trombonist to win the prestigious International Trombone Competition (Jeju-do, Korea, 2013).
His compositions, including three etude books and numerous chamber and solo works, are published by Brass Arts Unlimited ( ). He is currently at work creating the follow-up, to be entitled Fire Names. Grabois recently released his first solo album, Air Names, for electronic horn, for which he wrote all the music. He appeared on numerous recordings of classical music, rock, and jazz, and played in Broadway pits (some 36 shows, in thousands of performances). A freelance musician from 1989 to 2011, Grabois performed with most of the classical music ensembles in New York City, including the Metropolitan Opera, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York City Opera, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and St.Luke’s Chamber Orchestra. Grabois has also created numerous arrangements for Meridian. With Meridian, he has performed over seventy world premieres, released twelve CDs, received two ASCAP/CMA Adventuresome Programming Awards, and toured worldwide, in addition to recording or performing with rock legends Duran Duran and Natalie Merchant and performing the music of Frank Zappa for the composer himself.
Grabois is also the hornist in the Meridian Arts Ensemble, a New York City based brass quintet now in its thirtieth season. The former Chair of Contemporary Performance at the Manhattan School of Music, Grabois now serves as Director of the Electro-Acoustic Research Space (EARS), a facility which he founded with funding from a UW2020 large-equipment grant.
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DANIEL GRABOIS is Associate Professor of Horn at the Mead Witter School of Music at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he performs in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and serves as the Curator of SoundWaves, a series he created that combines science lectures with music performances.
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